21st-century Cotswolds

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Building their own home allowed the Wild family the best of both worlds – a traditional farmhouse façade and hi-tech glamour within

“Plots in the Cotswolds are like hen’s teeth,” says interiors and silverware
designer J.B. Wild. “But we’d had a tip-off that this one was coming up for
auction: 130 acres of fantastic land, with beautiful hedges and all well
maintained. It had been in the same family for 90 years and we were lucky
enough to get it,” she exclaims, still delighted at this piece of good
fortune.

Just a stone’s throw from Bourton-on-the Water, a village voted one of
England’s prettiest, J.B., her husband, Chris, and their three children had
nabbed themselves an idyllic spot – and one on which